Moulmein
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Farmers and politicians in Chaungzon township, just outside the southern town of Moulmein, worry that erosion in the area is being exacerbated by the ships that dredge its bed for sand each night.
From Reuters ● Mar. 3, 2020
In the 1920s a young would-be poet, an ex-Etonian named Eric Blair, arrived as a Burma Police recruit and was posted to several places, culminating in Moulmein.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017
In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017
Kipling never visited Mandalay, having imagined it from a brief sojourn in a city called Moulmein, now Mawlamyine, several hundred miles to the south.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2016
He even turns from his hearer, and sees far away the vision of the old Moulmein Pagoda, and the suddenness of the dawn, coming up “... like thunder outer China ’crost the Bay!”
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
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